Christian Reasons for Religious Liberty [Video]

At Providence’s Christianity and National Security Conference in November 2019 at the Army Navy Club in Washington, DC, Thomas Farr explained why the most profound reasons for religious liberty are Christian. The following is a transcript of the lecture.

Thank you, Mark. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to this group, and I’d love to leave plenty of time for a Q&A afterward, or at least… I spend my days fighting for religious freedom for everybody everywhere. I do that because I believe religious freedom is necessary for every human being and every society. And that’s under assault around the world, including in the United States. The consequences of this are very bad for all of us around the world.  

So where is this idea of religious freedom come from? Today, I mean, in the West, especially academics would say the Enlightenment, although not only academics. The Enlightenment identified religion …